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LSE researchers collaborate on organisational identification

Why do people define themselves in terms of the companies they work for?
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A group of current and former researchers from LSE’s Department of Management have come together to write on how we identify with our organisations.

The chapter, entitled ‘Organizational Identification’, explores why people define themselves in terms of the companies they work for and asks what the consequences are of doing so. It has been published in a recently edited volume called Essentials of Job Attitudes and Other Workplace Psychological Constructs: Theory and Practice, edited by Valerie I. Sessa and Nathan A. Bowling.

The chapter is co-authored by four researchers with ties to LSE’s Department of Management. The authors include Chia-Huei Wu, former Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and now Chair in Organisational Psychology at Leeds University Business School, Hannah Weisman, PhD student in the Department of Management, Hyun-Jung Lee, Assistant Professor of Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour in the Department of Management, and Katsuhiko Yoshikawa, a graduate of the Department’s PhD programme in Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour and now Associate Professor and Vice President at Shizenkan University in Japan. 

The book, which is published by Routledge, brings together the topic of job attitudes and other workplace psychological constructs, such as perceptions, identity, bonds and motivational states, with chapters by experts on each construct.

You can find out more about the book via the Routledge website.

Monday 11 January 2021